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Originally Posted by zilo
they have the smartmeter software ability to turn hot water systems on and off by suburb to balance loads across the network in Melbourne.
I know they do because I have an ombudsman case to have that featuret removed from my premises.
Basically they boost my solar hot water system on weekends, in the middle of the day...BUT...I said what if the sun is shining??
DUHHH...was the response.
It would be a simple extension of that system nonetheless.
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this would be a way of doing it but in todays modern world I truly think that would drive many to go "off grid".
folks work hard and earn decent money now, much to the chagrin of the upper echelons, the unwashed now want parity with the blue bloods, damn their hides.
solar/generators are cheap now, would be an easy thing to tell the powers that be to "stick your lines where the sun don't shine".
mess with my air-con and I'm gone, I'm one step away (batteries) from being self sufficient, only my power credit holding me to the moguls.
I do remember a few "trials" that never went anywhere and I don't think they ever will, folks are just too damn savvy now,
oh! for the good old Whitlam days when people were more docile, compliant and simply did as they were blooming well told.